Duran Duran’s twice-departed axeman Andy Taylor has rerecorded the band’s 1984 hit The Wild Boys. Not to disparage the original recording, but Andy’s The Wild Boys [reprise 09] sounds nothing like the original, which is nice. I hate when covers result in nothing but a new vocal over the same music. I hope Andy makes this avail for download or on iTunes.

I had the tune widget inserted here but, since the auto_play=true was embedded and could not be change to =false, I’ve removed it. I hate pages that autoplay sounds (usually loud) that you’re trying to find the mute or the volume or that makes you wanna pull the plug out of the wall. You can find the track here (it will autoplay).

DD’s The Wild Boys was the sole studio track on their first live album, Arena. It charted #1 in Canada and Germany and #2 in the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.